Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate research in biotechnology, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005.
C. Enzing, A. van der Guissen, Sander van der Molen
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
2007
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National Report of Spain
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate research in biotechnology, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005,
2007
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National Report of Germany
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate research in biotechnology, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005,
2007
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National Report of Finland
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate research in biotechnology, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005,
2007
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Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate biotechnology research, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005: Final Report
Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate research in biotechnology, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005,
2007
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Benchmarking national biotechnology policy across Europe: a systems approach using quantitative and qualitative indicators.
Thomas Reiss, Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
Research Evaluation. Special issue on new challenges in quantitative science and technology research Vol. 16 (4),
No. 4,
2007
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Effectiveness of Competition Law: A Panel Data Analysis
Franz Kronthaler
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 7,
2007
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The paper explores what macroeconomic factors can tell us about the effectiveness of recently enacted national competition laws. Qualitative evidence suggests that numerous countries fall short in implementing competition law. Furthermore, there seems to be significant differences between countries. To examine what factors might contribute to the explanation of effectiveness of competition law panel regression analysis is used. The results indicate that the level of economic development matters, however the institutional learning curve is also relevant. Furthermore, larger countries should be more concerned with competition advocacy activities than smaller countries and it seems to be the case that the problem of capture of competition law is serious in countries with high levels of corruption.
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Do House Prices Drive Aggregate Consumption?
Marian Berneburg, Axel Lindner
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 10,
2006
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In jüngster Zeit sprechen Konjunkturforscher Preisentwicklungen auf Immobilienmärkten einen großen Einfluß auf die Konsumnachfrage der privaten Haushalte zu. Dagegen kann eingewandt werden, daß Preiserhöhungen die Konsummöglichkeiten einer Volkswirtschaft als Ganzes nicht erhöhen: Wer eine Immobilie teuer verkauft, profitiert vom hohen Preis genau in dem Maße, wie der Käufer verliert. Der trotzdem zu beobachtende Zusammenhang zwischen steigenden Immobilienpreisen und lebhafter Konsumnachfrage bedeutet freilich nicht, daß sich die Wirtschaftssubjekte irrational verhalten. Er erklärt sich vielmehr daraus, daß beide Größen wesentlich von den Erwartungen über die längerfristige gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung einer Volkswirtschaft getrieben werden. Im vorliegenden Artikel steht eine einfache Erklärung der Hauspreisentwicklungen der letzten 15 Jahre in ausgewählten Industrieländern im Mittelpunkt. Ansatzpunkt zur Bestimmung des Wertes von Immobilien ist eine einfache Barwertformel zur Bestimmung des Wertes eines Vermögensguts, die von national unterschiedlichen Risikoaspekten oder einer möglichen Abhängigkeit von demographischen Entwicklungen abstrahiert. In diese Rechnung gehen für die einzelnen Länder jeweils spezifische Erwartungen ein, die sich aus den Erfahrungen der vergangenen Jahre speisen. Dabei spielen mit der Zinsentwicklung und dem längerfristigen Wachstum einer Volkswirtschaft zwei Größen eine zentrale Rolle, die auch wesentlichen Einfluß auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Güternachfrage haben.
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Vertical Intra-industry Trade between EU and Accession Countries
Hubert Gabrisch
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 12,
2006
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The paper analyses vertical intra-industry trade between EU and Accession countries, and concentrates on two country-specific determinants: Differences in personal income distribution and in technology. Both determinants have a strong link to national policies and to cross-border investment flows. In contrast to most other studies, income distribution is not seen as time-invariant variable, but as changing over time. What is new is also that differences in technology are tested in comparison with cost advantages from capital/labour ratios. The study applies panel estimation techniques with GLS. Results show country-pair fixed effects to be of high relevance for explaining vertical intraindustry trade. In addition, bilateral differences in personal income distribution and their changes are positive related to vertical intra-industry trade in this special regional integration framework; hence, distributional effects of policies matter. Also, technology differences turn out to be positively correlated with vertical intra-industry trade. However, the cost variable (here: relative GDP per capita) shows no clear picture, particularly not in combination with the technology variable.
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Economies of Scope in European Railways: An Efficiency Analysis
Christian Growitsch, Heike Wetzel
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 5,
2006
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In the course of railway reforms in the end of the last century, national European governments, as well the EU Commission, decided to open markets and to separate railway networks from train operations. Vertically integrated railway companies – companies owning a network and providing transport services – argue that such a separation of infrastructure and operations would diminish the advantages of vertical integration and would therefore not be suitable to raise economic welfare. In this paper, we conduct a pan-European analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realise economies of joint production and, thus, produce railway services on a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production is more efficient we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency for integrated production to a virtual reference set consisting of the separated production technology. Our findings are that in a majority of European Railway companies exist economies of scope.
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